by Sophie Bebeau
SELF-PORTRAIT AS DAYDREAM
you’d like to fuck the pool boy if you had
a pool or a boy to clean it
you’d like to be a middle-aged suburban Rapunzel wearing nothing
but a long Pepto pink satin robe feather trim drool on your chin
tidal wave swoops of your Coke bottle hair surging forth to drown
your boredom you’d like to have a robe in every pharmaceutical color
oh my you’d say oh gee yanking him inside by the collar
bones arrange me in a pretty way
so that I don’t make a smudge of myself
your swiveling hips your lips your eyes
two bulging meaty hearts
your impossibly long cigarette
your curls would jiggle like a singing saw your legs
twenty-five feel tall summoning static from the purple shag
you can give yourself chills any day of the week you like to live theatrically!
monday! it’s agony!
tuesday terrible weather for limerence
wednesday dead frogs
thursday you fuck the pool boy
friday you flagellate
saturday you babble
until you are buoyant & blue
sunday a poem
crawls out of your pocket drowns
another bucket of frogs
Author Sophie Bebeau is a poet from the small-town city of Green Bay, Wisconsin. Her poems have appeared in Your Impossible Voice, Bear Review, Spoonies Magazine, and Ode to Dionysus (forthcoming). Her poetry has been nominated for a 2024 Best of the Net award. You can find her on Instagram at @sophiebebeau.
Artist Simon Beraud lives and works between Paris, Brussels and Tel Aviv. His work revolves around questions intrinsic to human existence: identity, roots and uprooting, borders, love. and solitude, memory… Through his images, he invites the viewer to find connections with these questions that drive him. More broadly, he is interested in the evolution of our perceptions and of a collective memory: in the impact of the environment on the psyche and of the psyche on the environment.
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